SU to establish student run news bureau

Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is one of 11 journalism schools around the country benefiting from a more than $11 million investment from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The money will be used to expand a national initiative to adapt journalism education to a changing news industry. Each foundation will contribute half of the money, which will be used to support on campus student-run news bureaus, curriculum enhancement and a journalism education policy task force.

SU will receive about $600,000 to support "News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas," or "News 21." The campus based news incubator is slated to begin summer 2009 and will give students hands on reporting experience. Their work could be broadcast on mainstream and emerging news organizations.